Extra-Curricular

Mentoring

Every Honors student is paired with a mentor. All mentors have demonstrated excellence in their field and have shown a commitment to living oriented to the common good. Mentors come from many walks of life and many business fields. Almost all mentors are assigned ten or fewer Honors mentees, which means students and their mentors are able to meaningfully connect. Honors students are encouraged to talk through life’s challenges with their mentors, not just business topics.

• Weston Hyde – Hyde is from Utah. He holds a BBA in Marketing from Utah State University. While an undergraduate, Hyde worked for an educational non-profit called Leader.org, where he improved educational outcomes for children at Title 1 schools. Hyde was formerly the program coordinator for the Stephen R. Covey Leadership Center at Utah State. Afterwards, Hyde became assistant to Lord Dr. Michael Hastings CBE in the House of Lords in the United Kingdom. He is an MBA student in Mendoza and he is the MBA class president.
• Connor Patrick – Patrick is from New York, and graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in May 2023. As an undergraduate, Patrick was a student assistant in the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business. He is an MSM Candidate in Mendoza with concentration in Finance. He is also a Graduate Justice Fellow at the Center for Social Concerns and the assistant rector of Dillon Hall.
• Nathan Grow – Grow is from Illinois, but has spent many years working in Boston. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago where he received a BBA, an MPP, and an MBA. Before matriculating at Notre Dame, Grow was the Senior Vice President in Consumer, Food, and Retail Investment Banking at Houlihan Lokey in Chicago. He has also worked in M&A at Lincoln International and Morgan Stanley. Grow is a doctoral student in moral and political theology at Notre Dame. Grow continues to advise on lower-market M&A transactions for founder-owned businesses. His wife, Gabrielle, is also a mentor in Business Honors.
• Gabrielle Grow – Grow is from Illinois. She received her BA with honors in public policy from Stanford University. After graduation she worked for esteemed economist and co-author of Freakonomics Dr. Steve Levitt where she completed consulting projects in the fields such as agriculture, K-12 education, and law enforcement. Grow is a first-year PhD student studying Constitutional Studies and American Politics. She is a Notebaert Premier Fellow. She is also married to Nathan, a fellow Business Honors mentor.
• Bobby Weltner, C.S.C. – Weltner is from New Jersey. He holds a BBA from the University of Notre Dame in accountancy and mathematics. Weltner went on to become a Strategy Manager with KPMG UK after working within Deal Advisory & Strategy at KPMG US for six years, traveling to more than 50 countries during his time. Weltner was called by God to pursue religious life and returned to Notre Dame to join the seminary. He is in his fourth year of formation and discernment with the Congregation of Holy Cross. He also serves on Notre Dame’s Accountancy Advisory Board.
• Blaise Morris – Morris is from Illinois. He attended Holy Cross College as an undergraduate and was a member of the men’s golf team. He received the All Saints Award from Holy Cross College for Excellence in Scholarship, Leadership, and Service. He is a MSM Candidate in Mendoza. He is also the assistant hall director for Basil Hall at Holy Cross.
• Allie Burton – Burton is from Louisiana. She holds a BS from Princeton University in computer science. She has worked and interned for Google and Facebook. She was also a volunteer at the prestigious Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center. At the University of Notre Dame, she is pursuing a Master of Theological Studies with a concentration in moral theology. She plans on attending medical school after attaining her MTS.
• Marialena Bevilacqua – Bevilacqua is from Connecticut. She is a graduate of the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts where she was class president and a sports analytics research assistant. Following graduation, Bevilacqua became a brand operations manager and analyst at Thrasio, an e-commerce aggregator, where she was awarded 2021 Rookie of the Year. During her time at Thrasio, she also earned an MS in Business Analytics from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Bevilacqua is a Mendoza PhD student in Analytics.
• Jackie Herrick – Herrick is from outside Washington, D.C. She graduated magna cum laude from James Madison University receiving her BA in hospitality management. She worked in New York City for six years as an operations manager of a leading conference center. She is a Forte Fellow and MBA student in Mendoza. She is also a startup coach at the IDEA Center, Notre Dame’s entrepreneurial innovation hub.
• John Luke Hoonhout – Hoonhout is from New York. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Dallas where he earned a BA in politics. He is the former Director of Research at the Barry Center of the Morningside Institute where he focused on topics such as the American constitutional law and natural law. He is a PhD student at Notre Dame in Constitutional Studies and Political Theory.
• Isabella Gimon – Gimon was born in Venezuela, but grew up in Florida. She received her BS in Biology from FIU. She has conducted research in computational biology at FIU, MIT, and Yale. She is a recipient of 2023 National Science Foundation’s Graduate Fellowship as a result of her work on under esteemed scientist Dr. Santiago Schnell. She is currently a member of the Schnell Lab where she is conducting research on protein aggregation.
• Blake Perry – Perry is from Texas. He is a recent graduate of the University of Notre Dame where he received a BBA in finance. As an undergraduate, Perry was a Tocqueville Scholar, a Sorin Fellow, and a resident assistant in Alumni Hall. He is a former Röpke-Wojtyła Fellow with the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of America. Now he is a law student at the Notre Dame Law School.
• Teresa Querciagrossa – Querciagrossa is from Southern California. She received her BA in philosophy, politics, and studio art from Holy Cross College. She has worked in development for the University of Notre Dame, New York University School of Law, and other organizations. She has also worked in venture capital with IrishAngels/Vitalize Venture Group and she is a former member of the Steamboat Institute. She is currently working toward an MBA from Mendoza.
• Hailan Qian – Qian is from Oklahoma. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BBA in accountancy. She was a part of the Business Honor Program’s first cohort. She is a teaching assistant on campus and is finishing her one-year MSA in Mendoza. Soon she will be joining KPMG as an international tax associate next year.
• Dale Parker – Parker is from Los Angeles, CA. He received a BA in Classics from the University of Notre Dame. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in Classical Philology. He also studied at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce. He has published works on Plato’s Protagoras. Now he teaches at Notre Dame.
• Helen Keefe – Keefe is from Boston. She earned her BA in History of Science from Harvard University. After graduation, she has excelled in a variety of fields, from account management at tech startups to communications consulting at a faith-based non-profit. She spent 7 years living in Rome, Italy, but today she is Program Manager for Mentorship and so many other things in the Notre Dame Business Honors Program.
• Tess Geishauser – Geishauser is from Pennsylvania. She is a recent Mendoza graduate, having received a degree in finance with a minor in Constitutional Studies. As an undergraduate she was a member of the Deloitte Scholars Program and a Sorin Fellow. She received the Charles G. Morrow Award for Business Excellence and she was selected as one of the Poets & Quants 100 Best and Brightest Undergraduate Business Majors for the class of 2022. Most importantly, Tess is the Academic Advisor and Program Specialist for the Notre Dame Business Honors Program.